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The federal agency that administers AmeriCorps funding in the District disputed claims that technical problems were behind the city’s failure to meet a crucial deadline to obtain millions in aid for education programs.

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine released a statement on Friday exonerating a 10-year-old boy who was handcuffed and detained by Metropolitan Police Department officers after an armed robbery last week.

After the postponement of a controversial book talk at Politics and Prose, the author says he’s concerned that the bookstore is setting a disturbing precedent by caving to complaints, while the owners of the independent bookstore maintain…

For four days this week, Elsa and Joy toiled away on a challenging landscaping project in Georgetown, tearing away at invasive species spread across a hillside — and doing so with their teeth.

On most weekdays, you’d be hard-pressed to find any hustle and bustle inside Torrie’s, the red-walled restaurant across from Howard University Hospital. Saturday and Sunday, however, tell a different story: The place fills with crowds…

Ward 3 Democratic D.C. Council member Mary M. Cheh is known for her keen interest in identifying fraudulent activity in city government. Cheh has now raised the possibility that the District government has been “defrauded” in the awarding…

In late 2017, Georgetown Heritage (GH), the National Park Service (NPS) and design firm James Corner Field Operations debuted ambitious design concepts for the revitalization of the C&O Canal in Georgetown. Since then, this team has…

The future of longtime Dupont Circle watering hole The Front Page is uncertain as its landlord plots a revamp of 1333 New Hampshire Ave. NW.

Although Mayor Muriel Bowser’s 2020 budget increases spending on public education, schools in wards 7 and 8 are set to see significant drops in funding, according to a recent report from the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute.

Imagine jogging down the Rock Creek Park Trail and after the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge, instead of a thicket of trees obscuring your view of the C&O Canal, there is a vista of the locks from a new platform over the confluence of the…

“Lightweave” debuts next week as part of broader public space efforts in the booming neighborhood

It’s official—the Funk Parade is coming back to U Street on May 11, helmed by new leadership and under the banner of the 2019 theme “Keepin’ The Funk Alive.”

On a sunny spring day at the National Arboretum, Daniel Herrera is crawling on all fours.

The popular Union Market food hall in Northeast D.C. has drawn a host of new restaurants to the surrounding area over the last year, and developers hope it will soon attract hundreds of new apartment renters to the neighborhood.

Throughout my time as a cook, an entrepreneur and a nonprofit founder, I have been reminded time and again, from the District to Puerto Rico, of the incredible power of food to bring people together.

“A lot of people realize who Nipsey was after he died but for us , we’ve been on Nipsey since day one.”

Gjerde also leads A Rake's Progress in D.C. and Woodberry Kitchen in Baltimore.

In February 1944 Clara Mays, an African American federal government employee, purchased a three-story rowhouse in the Bloomingdale neighborhood, just north of Florida Avenue, close to Howard University.

We dug into new data from the 2019-2020 D.C. Public Schools lottery to see which schools had the most competition for seats – and which didn't have any seats open at all.

At a first of its kind meeting Tuesday night, current and former leaders of D.C.’s Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, Log Cabin Republicans of D.C., and the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance discussed what they said were common ground…